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- Her name I would rather tell you,
- the name of the girl, you know-
PEER
- No, now we will chat together,
- but only of this and that,-
- forget what's awry and crooked,
- and all that is sharp and sore.
- Are you thirsty? I'll fetch you water.
- Can you stretch you? The bed is short.
- Let me see;-if I don't believe, now,
- It's the bed that I had when a boy!
- Do you mind, dear, how oft in the evenings
- you sat at my bedside here,
- and spread the fur-coverlet o'er me,
- and sang many a lilt and lay?
ASE
- Ay, mind you? And then we played sledges
- when your father was far abroad.
- The coverlet served for sledge-apron,
- and the floor for an ice-bound fiord.
PEER
- Ah, but the best of all, though,-
- mother, you mind that too?-
- the best was the fleet-foot horses-
ASE
- Ay, think you that I've forgot?-
- It was Kari's cat that we borrowed;
- it sat on the log-scooped chair-
PEER
- To the castle west of the moon, and
- the castle east of the sun,
